On Sunday 15 January 2006 16:33, Peter Roozemaal wrote: > > * Ask also mentioned it may be my router cracking up, unable to hanlde > > the UDP traffic - but it has been OK for 18 months... > > It could be... I promoted an old PC to "firewall/router" (installing > additional ethernet cards and Linux) and the ip_conntrack module gave up: > > kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. > > Networking goes downhill very fast when pptp control connection packets > are rejected by the firewall. > The problem was fixed by increasing the maximum number of connections in > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max from 4096 to 16384.
Mine already is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max 16384 But the issue wasn't my linux gateway (the ntp server box) - it was my whole DSL connection appearing to be swamped. As Anthony DeRobertis said: > That sounds very much like something along the path is seeing congestion > and has absurdly large buffers. It could well be my ISP done something coincidental with when I dropped out the pool, and fixed it - I was complaining a lot to them last week (in fact I said I may as well go back to 56Kb dial-up to get a better service). I dunno. I am going to wait a month and see anyway. Nick -- "Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it." -Chinese Proverb _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
